Socio-Economic, Environmental, and Political Aspects of Rational Management and Land Use/Cover around the World
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 46783
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land change science; land use/cover change; land use modelling; statistical approaches; cadastre; environmental analysis; urban analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: land use/land cover change analysis; ecosystem service modeling and valuation; land resource conservation option; land ecology; ecosystem function, rehabilitation and restoration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land use/cover change stems from the multifaceted interaction of social, ecological, and geophysical processes. It is the leading cause of global environmental change. Political, technological, human, and biophysical factors (urbanization, agricultural expansion, population growth, and deforestation) and other driving forces have been reported as the causes of the rapid land use/cover changes over the past decades. It is essential to understand land use/cover change and describe its drivers to provide effective support for land planning and land management regulation.
Authors are requested to submit papers on applying socioeconomic, environmental, and political aspects to rational land management and land use/cover around the world. The integration of remote sensing, GIS, and modelling can provide valuable support for management and decision-making. These various factors, including policies, GDP, accessibility, and neighborhood factors behind land conversion, vary worldwide. Moreover, public participation at every step, proper economic policy, and political stability help to achieve sustainable development goals.
We will welcome contributions where various socioeconomic, environmental, and political aspects are combined with other factors and applied in various disciplines such as land management, land use/cover change, land surveying, environmental engineering, and landscape architecture.
The following list provides some examples of topics of interest, to ensure the consistency of the papers in this Special Issue:
- The integration of socioeconomic, environmental, and political aspects for rational land management and land use/cover;
- Best practices in rational land management—case studies from around the world;
- The impact of political decisions on land management and land use/cover;
- Legal and administrative regulations contributing to determining the directions of spatial policy;
- The main problems that hinder rational land management in the world and propositions of relevant solutions;
- Remote sensing, GIS, or UAV data for the mapping of land use/cover processes;
- The modelling and visualization of spatial land use/cover changes;
- Landscape metrics.
To handle all these challenges, scientific solutions, smooth political decisions (such as the implementation of policy and international agreements), the applicability of socially driven solutions, and sustainable economy-friendly solutions are required.
Papers incorporating novel and interesting techniques for studying these aspects and some interesting applications will be considered. Well-prepared review papers are also welcomed.
We invite all prospective authors to share their research.
Dr. Tomasz Noszczyk
Dr. Abreham Berta Aneseyee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Spatiotemporal analysis
- Land change science
- Urban analysis
- Spatial modelling
- Spatial policy
- Land management
- Spatial analysis
- Landscape metrics
- Spatial planning
- Natural resources
- Land degradation
- Land rehabilitation/restoration
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